Post Conviction

A LaPorte County man with a lengthy criminal history couldn’t convince the Indiana Court of Appeals that he is entitled to
post-conviction relief due to ineffective assistance from his trial and appellate attorneys.

A post-conviction court correctly denied relief to a man on his felony fraud conviction after determining that his felony
failure to register conviction should be vacated, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled. Anthony McCullough pleaded guilty to
the separate charges in one agreement.

Two men sentenced more than 20 years ago for murder and Class C felony attempted robbery were not improperly denied post-conviction
relief when they couldn’t obtain DNA evidence they said would prove exculpatory, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled
Monday.

A man originally sentenced to die for the 2006 murders of a mother and her 8- and 13-year-old daughters will continue to serve
his converted sentence of life without parole after the Indiana Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon affirmed a trial court’s
denial of post-conviction relief.

The Indiana Court of Appeals held Wednesday that the post-conviction court erred in striking as untimely the state’s
response to a man’s motion for summary judgment on his post-conviction relief petition. The judges also refused to grant
the state’s request to hold that it is relieved of the time constraints of Indiana Trial Rule 56.

Former Secretary of State Charlie White says his convictions on six charges ranging from vote fraud to theft should be tossed
because they violated state and federal law. He also claims that his lawyer, former Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi “was
ignorant of the law.”

A Delaware County man who pleaded guilty to armed robbery and criminal confinement in a deal that dropped seven other felony
counts was not improperly denied post-conviction relief when a judge considered evidence of charges that were dismissed, the
Indiana Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

A citizen of Ecuador who has lived in the U.S. since he was one year old was unable to convince the Indiana Court of Appeals
in separate cases that his counsel’s failure to inform him of the possible deportation consequences of pleading guilty
to a crime should result in post-conviction relief.

The Indiana Court of Appeals reversed the denial of a Delaware County man’s post-conviction relief petition finding
his trial attorney was ineffective in not ensuring the jury was properly instructed on the elements of murder, voluntary manslaughter
and the state’s burden of proof regarding sudden heat.

A post-conviction court erred when it denied a defendant’s request for post-conviction relief to vacate a habitual offender
enhancement, finding a case decided after the man’s direct appeal applies retroactively.

Kristine Bunch, the woman who claimed she was wrongfully convicted of killing her son in a fire in 1995, was released from
prison following a bond hearing Wednesday in Decatur County. The Indiana Court of Appeals reversed her convictions and ordered
a new trial on the murder charge.

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a man’s claims in support of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, finding
his motion to correct sentence wasn’t a motion pursuant to Indiana Code, but was a collateral attack on his sentence.

A Pakistan-born man who faces automatic deportation as a result of his guilty plea to felony theft lost his pursuit for post-conviction
relief before the Indiana Court of Appeals. The judges found Naveed Gulzar was unable to show he was prejudiced by his attorney’s
failure to advise him that automatic deportation is a consequence of his guilty plea.

A man whose death sentence and murder and rape convictions previously were reversed on appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court
remains condemned after the justices on Thursday affirmed a trial court’s denial of post-conviction relief.

The Indiana Court of Appeals dismissed sua sponte a man’s appeal of his conviction of and sentence for Class B felony
dealing in methamphetamine, because the order he appeals from isn’t a final judgment.